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c. D. GEESE Filed Feb. 5, 1923 INVENTOR I I CLARENCE DggsE AME ATTYS inentarily Patented eb. 16, 1926.

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CLARENCE D. GEESE, 0F COLUMBUS, OHIO.

TILE.

Application filed February 3, 19253. Serial No. 616,738. 1

1 0 aZZ a from it may concern Be it known that I, CLARENCE D. Gnnsn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Tiles, of which the following is a specification.

The primary object of this invention is to provide tiles by means of which a house or tive, a portion of the wooden frame of a building at its corner showing my corner tiles applied thereto. j

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the tile side of Fig. 1 before application to the buildtile in Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a perspective View of the form of tile for extending the tile covering of the wall between corners tiled as shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a sectionview on a large scale through the nailed joint on the line V,V Fig. 1.

In the views the characters 6 designate wooden studding and 7 the wooden sheathing thereon at the corner of a house or other building.

The plain tiles as shown in Fig. l-are made in a single piece marked off or grooved to represent the faces of fourbricks 8 as ordinarily laid in a brick wall and in break joint fashion, and so as to provide a half brick. projecting at each endone above and one below. The tile thus formed may be matched up to eachother to the compleformed corner tile at either end of the corner.

The corner tiles are made identical with the plain tile except that there is added to what is shown in Fig. 4 integrally to the right hand-end for one form the angular lower corner portion 8 and for the other form the angular upper corner portion 8 The corner portions 8 and 8 each simulate the face and endof a brick when viewed at Fig. 3 ma similar view of the left hand the corner there being no break at the corner between said face and end and when two of the corner tiles so formed and as shown in Figs. 2 and 3 are secured to the corner of the wooden frame as shown in Fig. 1 the illusion is perfect. The corners started by thetwo corner tiles as indicated in Fig. I is extended by adding plain tiles likethat shown inv Fig. 4 the other corners being finished by using the corner tiles. The grooves between the several brick faces on-eac'h tile has designed and adapted to receive mortal or other pointing plastic material. I provide the tile with an improved form of joint to connect and secure the tiles, said joint adapted not only to prevent the ingress of water and aid in securing the tile in position but also to permit the introduction of -.mortar or cementto complete the illusion.

For this purpose each tile is shown as made at its lower edge ad acent its inner face with an acute angular groove the outer wall 10 of which is vertical, or substantially so,

forming a lip. 12 while the wall 10? of the notch is inclined inwardly downward; and the upper edge of each tile is madewith a tongue 11 the upper edge of which is beveled to fit a groove like that described so that the lower edge of one tile can be applied to the upper edge of the correspondingtile next below. The tongue 11 is made of suchdepth that an open space left between the over lapping lip 12 of the upper tile and the shoulder 13 of the tile next below said space being about equal to. the usual mortar space in ordinary brick walls. The tongue 11 is provided with holes 14 at suflicient intervals through which nails may be driven into tinsheathing as shown at 15 to secure the tile in position. It will be observed that the nail 15 in one tile sufficed to lock in positionfrom movement outward the next tile above. The heads of the nails help more or less to tie the pointing mortar according to their form or the extent of their projection.

The vertical ends of the tile can also be 1 provided with tongues and grooves and nail holes like those described. The position of the tongues and grooves on the tile can be reversed, that is for example thegroove on the lower edge can be formed on the upper edge and the tongue on the upper edge can be formed on the lower edge'of each.v tile. The Water shedding effect I believe to be better when the tongue and groove arrange ment is as depicted in Fig. 5.

These tile can be made of harm clay or a 3 good grade of concrete and they can be made quite thin and dished at their inner sides so as to make them light in -Weight. The faces of the imitation brick can be fashioned in any style and colored as desired.

The invention can be used in some interiors where imitation brick work is desired.

The forms of the parts are susceptible of change Without departing from the gist of the invention as claimed.

What I claim is: p A pair of tiles each in imitation of a plurality of ordinary brick in break joint arrangement, one of said tiles having an upper angular corner section representing the face and end of a brick and projecting beyond the main body of the tile in vertical planes coinciding With, and at an angle thereto and the other of said tiles having a lower angular corner section representing the face and end of a brick and projecting beyond the main body of the tile in vertical planes coinciding With and at an angle thereto and adapted to engage the first mentioned projecting corner section to represent two laid-up corner brick.

' CLARENCE D. GEESE. 

